Dear Pablo, dear list

That's great, thank you very much for your suggestion.
That seems to me to be a very elegant solution to the next two problems that were actually still ahead of me.

And now to my initial question, which I didn't specify precisely enough.

I have the following workflow in mind:
1. I have an XML file (TEI-XML),
2. then, following your brilliant suggestion, I will create an xml-analyze-template.tex file and customise it.
3. As you suggest, now one would actually use
    context --environment xml-analyze-template.tex file.xml
    to typeset in a pdf file.
But I would like to convert all the XML nodes into the ConTeXt typesetting language, and then edit/correct the text and maybe some structure in this *.tex file.

And here comes my question: Can I use context to convert my XML-file 'file.xml' into a ConTeXt-file 'file.tex' instead of typesetting it as a 'file.pdf'.

Best regards, Christoph

Hi Christoph,

not clear to me whether you meant an environment (a format file) with
the ConTeXt generated file.

In that case, this might help:

  context --extra=xml --analyze --template your-file.xml

With that template, you may run:

  context --environment=xml-analyze-template.tex your-file.xml

BTW, there are two typos in xml-analyze-template.tex (lines 8-9):

  - \startxmlsetup should read \startxmlsetups.
  - \xmlsetsetups should read \xmlsetsetup.

But consider that this only flushes text with no formatting (you will
have all text in a single paragraph.

If this is not what you need, a more detailed (or simply more verbose)
explanation) might help.

Just in case it might help,

Pablo